Over one million domains have been found to be potentially vulnerable to a “Sitting Ducks” attack, a cyber threat that exploits DNS misconfigurations to hijack domains. The report, published by ...

The domain name system (DNS) is the backbone of the internet, but it’s also one of its biggest security blind spots. As a translator between user-friendly domain names and machine-friendly IP ...

On May 12, 2025, at 20:55 UTC, hackers hijacked the “.fi” domain name system (DNS) of Curve Finance after managing to access the registrar. They began sending its users to a malicious website, ...

NS1, a domain name system (DNS) and traffic management provider, is taking on “DNS cache poisoning” attacks with new DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) capabilities built into its platform. DNS ...

“Had the attackers wanted to take down the DNS portion of the internet, they could have done so,” said Talos' Craig Williams. Cisco Talos researchers say a nation state is likely behind a new ...

The makers of BIND, the Internet’s most widely used software for resolving domain names, are warning of two vulnerabilities that allow attackers to poison entire caches of results and send users to ...

Four out of five financial organizations experienced a DNS attack last year, according to IDC 2020 Global DNS Threat Report 59% of Financial Services companies suffered application downtime as a ...